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Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Add-a-Toy Mountain

Date: 12 17 1930
Description: View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta...
Photograph

Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes.
Photograph

Group Posed around Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: A family is posed in front of a wood frame house. A boy or girl with a doll is sitting with a dog on the porch roof. A man holding an accordion is sitting ...
Photograph

Family in Yard with Music Box

Date: 1872
Description: A family sits around a table on which is a wooden box with a key lock and a hinged lid, possibly with a mirror inside the lid. (A jewelry box? a music box?...
Photograph

Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
Photograph

Girl Posing with Doll

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Description: Studio portrait of a girl, in a dress with a sash around the waist, standing with her hand on a wooden fence near a doll sitting on the ground in front of ...
Photograph

Three Children with Tricycle

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Description: Studio portrait of three children posing in front of a painted backdrop. Two children are standing, and one holds an umbrella and the other a doll. The oth...
Photograph

Doll Collection

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: Two Washington school students looking at a doll collection belonging to Judy Maher that is on display at the school. The girls are Karen Love and Janice J...
Photograph

Group of Girls with Dolls

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Description: Studio portrait of a dozen young girls standing and looking down at dolls they are holding in their left hands. They are all wearing dresses and pointing a...
Photograph

Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of a Young Family

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Description: A studio portrait of a young family posing in front of a painted backdrop. A woman is standing on the right in the back, wearing a skirt, ruffled blouse, a...
Print

A Merry Christmas Invitation

Date: 1885
Description: A die cut holiday card that has moving parts. When the string at the bottom is pulled, pictures of children appear and disappear. The image is of a decorat...
Postcard

Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus at the bedside of a child, handing out toys. There are dolls, a bear, a badminton racket and bird, ball and a toy horse. ...
Postcard

Merry Christmas

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with a little girl asleep in bed. Santa Claus is gazing at her with a doll in his left hand. He has a sack of toys on his back and is wear...
Photograph

Ventriloquism Act

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Description: Ben Bergor, Madison magician, ventriloquist, and entertainment agent, performing with Jerry O'Reilly at a farm show. With Bergor is his wife Alva who often...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Li Hsiu Lan

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified family. A man and a woman are posing sitting, and the woman is holding an infant in her lap. Behind them a man and woman...
Photograph

The Spaulding Twins, Mary and Jane

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of twin European American girls posing sitting on a swing and holding a doll on their laps between them. Ide...
Photograph

Shirley and a Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger standing next to an outdoor decorated Christmas tree. Several of her presents are placed at the base of the tree.

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